Bat Conservation Trust launch Halloween video to celebrate bats 🦇
Operation Badger re-launch for National Badger Day!
Craig Fellowes awarded MBE for services to wildlife
Operation EASTER ~ 27 years of stopping egg thieves
Man who abseiled down cliff to take peregrine falcon eggs jailed
Newport company fined for the demolition of Bat Roost
Cheshire man sentenced after admitting animal cruelty offences
2,114 seizures of endangered animals and timber in major international law enforcement operation
Natural England prosecutes developer for breaching Bat Mitigation Licence
Vale of Glamorgan man prosecuted for destroying valuable wildlife habitat
Wildlife detectives take part in new Forensics Training programme
PSNI investigate death of two white-tailed eagles
PSNI launch Operation SUBRISION to deter and detect rural and wildlife crime
Lewisham man convicted for illegally exporting ivory
Operation EASTER launched for 2023 - stopping egg thieves and egg collectors
Monmouthshire company fined for damaging an important Great Crested Newt habitat
Two Lincolnshire men sentenced under new hare coursing legislation
Hoard of suspected poached deer skulls and fox tails uncovered after drugs raid in Nottinghamshire
01 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Land owner fined for failing to maintain a County Wildlife Site in the Lake District Richard Whitton a farmer from Allithwaite, Grange-over-Sands was yesterday (31/03/14) fined by Magistrates in Kendal for failing to comply with a land ‘Remediation Notice’, issued under the Environmental Impact Agriculture Regulations 2006, for the Miller Beck County Wildlife Site near […]
Read more → 29 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 A man has been charged with offences from the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Hasan Fidan, 46 from Bridge Close, Tonbridge was arrested by officers from the Rural Partnership Team on 28 March. He has been charged with two counts of killing a wild bird and theft of a wild animal. He has been bailed to […]
Read more → 27 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “On Tuesday, 25 March at a Borough Wildlife Officer Training Day held at ZSL London Zoo, Police Constable Anthony Kiddle received this award for the second time, having previously been awarded it in 2012. This annual event is contested between the Met’s 32 borough Wildlife Crime officers and is sponsored by the World Society for […]
Read more → 26 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
“The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) celebrates the start of its fifth decade this month. It is the oldest international environmental agreement and one of the few with real teeth, because it can impose trade sanctions for non-compliance—and because virtually all countries have joined. The mission of […]
Read more → 25 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Police Officers in Highland and Islands Division are currently carrying out enquiries following the discovery of six birds of prey in the Conon Bridge/Muir of Ord area, Ross-shire. The birds – five red kites and one buzzard – were found at various locations in that area between Monday 17 March and Monday 24 March 2014.” […]
Read more → 19 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU2 A dead sparrowhawk with gunshot injuries was discovered by a couple out walking along Brisley Road in Whissonsett, near Fakenham, on February 16. A week later another couple heard shooting while walking in Narford Wood near Swaffham, and found a dying buzzard which had been shot. Source : EDP24 To read article click here
Read more → 19 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 The illegal catching and killing of birds for aviaries, human consumption or taxidermy is common practice within EU member states. The European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) is an international non-profit association set up in 1992 as an informal Network of European regulators and authorities concerned with the implementation […]
Read more → 15 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
COS AGENTS RURALS DE CATALUNYA (Catalonia Rural Ranger Corps) believe they have uncovered a bird laundering ring and recently sought the help of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) to assist them with their investigation. Agents in Spain investigating individuals keeping Peregrine falcons, became suspicious of documentation that they had seized, which indicated that […]
Read more → 14 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
PRESS RELEASE RAPTOR CRIME LEAFLET LAUNCHED in Northern Ireland On the 8th March, at the annual Northern Ireland Raptor Study Group conference at Oxford Island Nature Reserve a new bird of prey (raptor) leaflet was launched by the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime (PAW) Northern Ireland encouraging members of the public to record […]
Read more → 14 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
“A social media campaign is being launched by Crimestoppers to fight rural crime. The “Scene it. Herd it. Speak up about it. Anonymously” message will be spread across social media using Facebook, Twitter and alert systems. It will direct the public to a webpage that discusses rural crime, including poaching, hare-coursing, theft of oil, metal […]
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